The Iowa-class battleships were designed for major naval engagements during World War II but were primarily used for shore ...

An invasion of Taiwan by China today would face similar challenges that caused the US to drop the idea during WWII. The ...

What you might not be aware of is that there were a fair few who were captured during the action and held as prisoners of war ...

After years of analysis, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's team discovered the wreck of the Japanese battleship Musashi in ...

The history of the US military and aviation started in the Civil War, but many trace the US Air Force to 1907.

Toward the end of World War I, King George VI served with the Royal Naval Air Service. He was appointed Officer in Charge of ...

As the world’s navies grow, they strengthen below the waves as well as above. Several nations are betting big on submarines.

The USS Texas is still without a permanent home, following a breakdown in negotiations this week between the Battleship ...

The warship was located for nearly three-quarters of a century at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historical Site, across ...

Battleship Texas, one of the last remaining vessels to survive both World War I and II, would have been operated by Landry's ...

The U.S. Navy is home to one of the largest and most formidable fleets of aircraft in the world, by a long shot. Its history ...

Imperial Japan sent its first wave of kamikaze suicide planes to the U.S. Navy off the coast of the Philippines on Oct. 25, ...